WEBVTT JULIE: AS SOON AS KYLELASHER SAW IT HAPPEN -->> ALL OF A SUDDEN IJUST SAW A BIG CHUNK OFSNOW ALMOST THE WIDTH OFA TRUCK.>> HE SAYS HE PRETTYMUCH KNEW HIS FATE.>> I KNEW IT WAS COMINGFOR ME.>> LASHER SAYS HIS INNERJAMES BOND TOOK OVER,AND INSTINCTIVELY, HEMANAGED TO DODGE THEFIRST CHUNK OF ICE, BUTTHAT'S WHEN HIS LUCK RANOUT.>> I WAS KINDA HOPINGTHAT IT WAS GOING TO BEFLUFFY WHEN I KNEW I WASGOING TO GET HIT BY IT,AND WHEN IT HIT, ITKINDA SOUNDED LIKEGETTING HIT BY ANOTHERCAR.>> IN THAT WHITE-KNUCKLEMOMENT, LASHER FELTPARALYZED.>> BLEW GLASS ALL OVERME.BLEW GLASS IN MYFINGERS.ALL OVER MY ARM AND DOWNMY LEG.>> THE BUDGET BOX TRUCKSTOPPED ON ROUTE 24 INBROCKTON AND ITS DRIVERAPOLOGIZED.DOCTORS CHECKED LASHEROUT AT A NEARBYHOSPITAL, AND DETERMINEDHE WAS OKAY, THANKS INPART TO THE SUNGLASSESHE WAS WEARING.>> IT COULD HAVE BEENWAY WORSE, SO YOU HAVETO LOOK AT IT THAT WAY.>> THE 26-YEAR-OLD WESTROXBURY MAN IS LEFT WITHA BAG FULL OFGLASS-COVERED CLOTHESAND A DEEP FEELING OFGRATITUDE, BUT THIS ISNOW HIS SECOND ACCIDENTWHILE ON THE ROAD FORWORK, AND HE WONDERS IFIT MIGHT BE TIME TO.ASK FOR THAT DESK JOB.>> I ENJOY BEING ON THEROAD, EVERY DAY ISDIFFERENT AS THE CAREERGOES ON, YA, I'M SURETHERE WILL BE A NEW ONETHAT WILL GET ME OFF THEROAD AND IN AN OFFICE

Kyle Lasher said his inner action hero took over when he saw a sheet of ice lift off the top of a box truck driving in front of him on Route 24 on Thursday. He was able to dodge the first chunk, but his luck didn't last long.

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"I was kinda hoping that it was going to be fluffy when I knew I was going to get hit by it," said the 26-year-old from West Roxbury. "When it hit, it kinda sounded like getting hit by another car."

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"All of a sudden i just saw a big chunk of snow, almost the width of a truck, go up in the air and it kinda split in half in the air."

"A small box truck had snow on top of it, which was now basically ice, that came off the truck and actually hit the windshield of a smaller car behind it," Brockton Deputy Fire Chief Brian Nardelli said. "It shattered the windshield."

In that white-knuckle moment around 12:25 p.m., Lasher said he felt paralyzed.

"(It) blew glass all over me. Blew glass in my fingers, all over my arm and down my leg.""He suffered lacerations to his hands because, when the windshield shattered, some of the shards came inward," Nardelli said.

The driver of the Budget Rent-a-Car box truck stopped on Route 24 and apologized.Lasher was taken to a nearby hospital to be checked out. Doctors determined he was OK, in part because of the sunglasses that protected his eyes.

"It could have been way worse, so you have to look at it that way," he said.